2 Weeks to Dispose of Banned Bump Stocks

A gun rights group in Massachusetts is concerned many gun owners may not know they are facing serious legal trouble if they are not in compliance with the new bump stock law.

(Published Friday, Jan. 19, 2018)

Gun owners in Massachusetts are being warned if they own bump stocks, they have two weeks to get rid of them.

The Massachusetts legislature voted last year to ban them and Feb. 1 is the deadline to comply or face criminal charges.

"This is not a joke," said Jim Wallace, executive director of the Gun Owners Action League. "A violation of this new law is up to life in prison."

Wallace says many bump stock owners may not be familiar with the new law, and a warning from Massachusetts state officials to gun owners — despite being dated Dec. 18 — only went out Friday, more than a month later.